Coat and hat hook



(No Model.) I

' P. TAYLOR.

. GOAT AND HAT HOOK.

No. 384,001. Patented June 5, 1888.

WIt ESEEE- I V lfviE" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK TAYLOR, OFLOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

COAT AND HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,001, dated June 5,1888.

Application filed February 1, 1886. Serial No. 190,448. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inCoat and Hat Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to coat and hat hooks, and the objects of saidinvention are to prevent the wire from which the hook is formed frommoving on itself and to afford a con venient means of driving anattaching point or screw with which such hook is provided into a wall orother supporting object.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an isometric view of myimproved hook pro vided with an attaching-eye, and Fig. 2 an isometricview of the same, except that the attaching-eye is omitted.

Drepresents the hook as a whole. The hook D has a coat or clothes hook,0, formed at the lower end of a vertical wire, I), whichconstitutes theback of the hook and rests against the vertical face of a wall or otherobject to which said hook is attached.

H is a hat-hook connected to the hook O by the brace B, said brace beingnearly S-shaped. A horizontal arm, A, connects the hat-hook H to theback i), the rear end of the arm A being bent into an eye, e, which eyesurrounds said part b. The part b, the hook O, the brace B, the hook H,and the arm A all lie in the same vertical plane. To prevent the rearend of the arm A from being bent downward and to allow the back b torest closely against the vertical face of the object to which it isattached, the back b is bent forward at b, the point at which it issurrounded by the eye e. Above the eye e the back I) rests against thevertical face of the object to which the hook D is attached; but theupper end of the back I) is bent backward horizontally to form an attaching-point, 8, high enough above the hori zontal arm A to allow theuse of a hammer in driving the same. The point 8 may be screwthreaded,as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, or may be roughened or barbed in awellknown manner to retain said attaehingpoint in the object to which itis attach ed. The head 1) of the attaching screw or point 8 ispreferably bent alittle forward of the back I), as shown in thedrawings, to enable it the better to be driven by a hammer.

' It is customary, as is well known, to drive screws partly into wood byblows of a hammer, and then to turn the screw home. The construction ofthe head p and arranging the attaching-point higher than the arm Aenable this to be accomplished readily.

Preferably the back of the hook is provided at its upper end with anattaching-eye, s, as shown in Fig. 1, such attaching-eye 8 being formed,by continuing upward and looping the back I) laterally or in a plane atright angles to the general plane of the hook above the place where saidwire is bent backward to form the attaching-point s.

The hooks shown in the top figures of the drawings are precisely alike,except that one has and the other has not an attaching-eye, 8'. Throughthe attaching-eye s a common woodscrew or nail may be driven in theusual manner, such wood-screw or nail aiding to support the hook andalso serving to keep said hook from turning on its attaching-point.

I claim as my invention 1. A hook formed of wire and having a hathookand a coat-hook, a brace connecting said hat-hook and said coat-hook, ahorizontal arm, and a vertical back, said horizontal arm being connectedto said hat-hook at its frontend, and at its rear end being providedwith an eye which surrounds said back, the upper end of said back beingbent backward above said arm to form an attachingpoint for said hook, asand for the purpose specified.

2. A hook formed of wire bent to form a coat-hook and a hat-hook, and abrace connecting said hat-hook and said coat-hook, and a horizontal armprovided at its rear end with an eye, the front end of said horizontalarm being connected to said hat-hook, and a verti-' cal back passingupward through said eye andbent backward above said arm to form an attaching-point, said baekbeing bent forward where it is surrounded bysaid eye to prevent the rear end of said horizontal arm from moving onsaid back and to allow said back to rest closely against the verticalsurface of the oban attaching-point for said hook, the head of :0 saidattachingrpoint being bent forward of said back to enable said point tobe driven by a hammer, as and for the purpose specified FREDERICKTAYLOR.

' Witnesses:

ALBERT M. 001213, KIRKLEY HYDE.

